Italian Revenue Agency Ruling no. 131/2025: Clarifications on the nominal tax rate test applicable to foreign dividends
With ruling no. 131/2025, the Italian Revenue Agency clarified that, for the purposes of Article 47-bis, paragraph 1, letter b) of the TUIR (Italian consolidated law on income tax), the test of the nominal level of taxation – used to determine whether a foreign tax regime qualifies as preferential in cases of non-controlling shareholdings – must be carried out based solely on the IRES rate (24%), without taking into account either IRAP or withholding taxes applied to dividends payable.